{"id":249643,"date":"2014-02-26T17:45:10","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T13:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=249643"},"modified":"2014-02-26T17:45:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T13:45:10","slug":"armenian-mp-explained-why-he-did-not-honor-the-memory-of-victims-of-march-1-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/02\/26\/armenian-mp-explained-why-he-did-not-honor-the-memory-of-victims-of-march-1-2008.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian MP Explained Why He Did Not Honor the Memory of Victims of March 1, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Armenian National Congress MP Nikol Pashinyan did not participate in the minute of silence in the Armenian parliament today to commemorate the victims of Mar. 1, 2008, leaving the chamber.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPashinyan explained why he left the room on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nikol.pashinyan\/posts\/709982712365430?stream_ref=10\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>his Facebook page<\/strong><\/span><\/a> [AM].\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;A little while ago Republican Party of Armenia MP Margarit Yesayan suggested to honor the memory of March 1 victims with one minute of silence.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Those present stood up. I didn&#39;t participate in the minute of silence and left the room because sitting in the National Assembly chamber today are people who have a direct link to the organization and implementation of the March 1 murders; people who personally gave orders to shoot the citizens of Armenia &mdash; it&#39;s not even ruled out to find those who followed the orders directly.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Participating with them side-by-side in the minute of silence to commemorate the March 1 victims, as I see it, would be disrespectful to the memory of the victims. I will speak about this also in my speech,&quot; he wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian National Congress MP Nikol Pashinyan did not participate in the minute of silence in the Armenian parliament today to commemorate the victims of Mar. 1, 2008.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12179,15418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}